Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured

An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.

  • hayvan@piefed.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    He was hunting antelopes, not elephants at least. But I’m still glad the elephants showed up.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The was hunting yellow backed duiker which, A, are evidently insanely easy to hunt. So easy that you can evidently shine a light at it at night, walk right up to it, and club it to death.

      They’re a vital food source for a bit part of central Africa.

      And 2, they’re so heavily hunted that they’re at serious risk of endangerment.

      I said something in another post about there being a chance this was a genuine conversation effort, but after doing some reading; no. This guy is just an asshole. He got justifiably trampled by elephants doing something for fun that the people of central Africa do every day to feed themselves.